21 March 2015

FSK-CW (or FSK/Morse)

FSK-CW, also known as SFK/Morse, means Frequency Shift Keying CW and is a variant of QRSS (extreme slow speed CW, from Q-code QRS) that
instead of activate/deactivate the carrier, the carrier is always
activated as long as the transmission lasts. During pauses between dots,
dashes or characters the frequency is shifted downwards. Whilst the
upper trace shown on the screen contains the Morse information the lower
trace is drawn during signal pauses. The advantage of this mode is its
redundancy. If, for instance, a dash is falling into pieces caused by
QRM there's still a chance to determine subsequently by checking the
lower trace if the signal really had contained that dash or rather
several dots.